You manage things, you lead people. We went overboard on management and forgot about leadership.

It is easier to apologize than to get permission.

From then on, when anything went wrong with a computer, we said it had bugs in it.

If it's a good idea, go ahead and do it. It is much easier to apologise than it is to get permission.

If you do something once, people will call it an accident. If you do it twice, they call it a coincidence. But do it a third time and you've just proven a natural law!

Manage things. Lead people.

The glass is neither half empty nor half full. It's simply larger than it needs to be. It is easier to get forgiveness than permission

I've always been more interested in the future than in the past.

Leadership is a two-way street, loyalty up and loyalty down. Respect for one's superiors; care for one's crew.

No computer is ever going to ask a new, reasonable question. It takes trained people to do that.

To me programming is more than an important practical art. It is also a gigantic undertaking in the foundations of knowledge.

It is often easier to ask for forgiveness than to ask for permission.

A ship in port is safe, but that's not what ships are built for.

Ideally, our muscles should obey our will. Reasonably, our will should not be dominated by the reflex actions of our muscles.

We retire too early and we die too young, our prime of life should be in the 70's and old age should not come until we are almost 100.

It is better to be tired from physical exertion than to be fatigued by the 'poisons' generated by nervousness while lying awake.

It is the mind itself which builds the body.

Man should develop his physical condition simultaneously with that of his mind.

You must squeeze every atom of impure air from lungs until they are almost as free of air as a vacuum.